Control: tag -1 sid buster - moreinfo unreproducible On 2017-07-10 15:39, Jan Wagner wrote: > I did run a "apt install monitoring-plugins-basic" on a fresh stretch > container.
Looking at my logs, the problem was only reproducible in sid at the time I filed the bug, but now it also happens in buster. OK, let me debug a bit more after the failure occurred # sed -i '2iset -x' /var/lib/dpkg/info/monitoring-plugins-basic.postinst # dpkg --configure --pending Setting up monitoring-plugins-basic (2.2-3) ... + set -e + templdir=/usr/share/monitoring-plugins/templates-basic + . /usr/share/monitoring-plugins/dpkg/functions + npconfdir=/etc/nagios-plugins/config + plugindir=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/ + [ configure = configure ] + register_cfgs + cd /usr/share/monitoring-plugins/templates-basic + dest=/etc/nagios-plugins/config/apt.cfg + ucf apt.cfg /etc/nagios-plugins/config/apt.cfg Error: The new file apt.cfg does not exist! dpkg: error processing package monitoring-plugins-basic (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: monitoring-plugins-basic extending the error message in ucf to also print $(pwd), reveals that the current directory of the process is /, which leads us to debconf (1.5.62) unstable; urgency=medium ... * Change directory to / before executing maintainer scripts (closes: #608648). ... So address your configuration files with absolute paths. Andreas